Sunday, September 09, 2012

I love listening to HK Radio 903 & 881. The station is known to nurture lots of personalities with their own uniqueness. The DJs themselves are the main attraction and I have some favourite program that I made sure I listen to the archive everyday. Yeah... I'm that radio-nerdy haha...

And recently I listened to a program hosted by Matt 邹凯光 (Matt is hosting another program called 1872游花园 with 余迪伟 and Ah Bu) and 郭子健 called 十沟场. As you know, HK people like to play with the Cantonese pronounciations which they call 吃字, basically a combo of homonyms and rhyming. So the program name is actually a twist of the English word "sub-culture"!!! This particular episode was hosted with 彭浩翔 who's the current IT director in HK, swimming ably between satisfying the needs of local HKies and balancing it with the commercial factor of the mainland Chinese flavour.

Sunday, August 05, 2012

One of the things I missed most is watching badminton games in Malaysia. Being in red dot means I will be deprived of the chance of watching Malaysian athletes live in action on network TV. Also missing my shouting and screaming partner-in-crime, i.e. my sister as that's what we did watching Piala Malaysia ages ago (remember Burhan Ajui from Sandakan missing the penalty???) and badminton matches most of the time.

It's a silver but Laduk, you deserve the respect. Losing a fair game is much better than winning a foul one!

Sunday, July 29, 2012

The laughable effort to use the government's election campaign slogan as the title of the National Day celebration song aside, the ﻿quality of the "so-called lyrics" by our PhD holder minister is really appalling. For a minister who insulted a reporter who asked him question in English and not Bahasa Melayu/Malaysia (we never know when the flip-flop will change again), his grasp of the language is really embarrassing, to say the least. So much for "memartabatkan" Bahasa kebangsaan?????

Sunday, July 22, 2012

When the plant is infected to the core, it won't help when you try to move the ground where it's planted. The Chinese says it's "changing the soup but not the medicine". You can try some pesticides but soon enough it will develop enough immunity to it hence in real terms, the pesticides is aggravating the situations.

For me, let them die. Then as the nature intended it to, the withered plant will rot and turn into natural fertilisers, though some of them are so severely toxicated that they will poison the earth when they wither.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

As usual, I love the non-main character of the series, with the exception of GBC, The Big C and Nurse Jackie (never like the title character of Grey's Anatomy, Sex and the City and Will and Grace) so naturally I love Danny Pudi's character, Abed, Chevy Chase's Pierce and Ken Jeong's Senor Chang. Gosh, Ken Jeong was a doctor!!!

Laura Linney is always dependable. And Showtime is one of the rare station that's dependable as well. Good story line with stellar cast. When you think that the ending of season 1 is a resounding success and worried about season 2, it never ceased to amaze you with the equally strong season 2. Waiting to be amazed by season 3 soon....

1. Director - Ann is such a prolific HK director. You can fault some of her end products but you definitely can't fault her sincerity and dedication to HK cinema. Lots of my favourite HK films are by her. My all time favourite, Woman Forty 女人四十. Josephine Xiao 萧芳芳 is great!!!!!

Watched this on plane. Again, it's a stellar cast and no surprise when Octavia Spencer snatched the Best Supporting Actress. Viola was kinda-being-robbed from the statue but Streep being the "so-called-robber", it's a tough fight. Whether you watch this as chick-flick or black-right campaign, it's an enjoyable time spent.

Adapted from theatre you will expect the performance is larger-than-life and in-your-face. With no set change throughout the whole movie, it's a risk if the cast has no acting chop to continuously sustain the interest and capture the audience's attention. Luckily Polanski has a stellar cast. Enough said.

Ewan needs no introduction on his acting capability. Surprisingly he's subtle in this movie; both the character and skin-exposure and this definitely shows the range of his acting chop. Plummer himself got his Johnny-come-lately acting recognition in the forms of 2012 Oscar Best Supporting Actor and a slew of other awards. Another surprise is Goran Visnjic who's last seen as the heart-throb in ER. Time is cruel!!!!

Being a sequel and a collaboration (setting and investment) between HK and China, I was naturally skeptical. With the slow-boiled success of the 1st instalment, Love in the Puff 志明与春娇, I am worried that Pang's new effort will be China-nised as what happened to almost all collaborative-efforts 合拍片 lately.

The end-product? I am happy to see not only it's NOT China-nised, it managed to keep the essence of HK/Cantonese movie. And it's so refreshing to hear the foul words spoken naturally in the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From Good Christian Bitch to Good Christian Belles to the ambigious GCB, the series was canceled after Season 1. I enjoyed the irony and also the sarcasm portrayed in the series and no offense to the Christian community. The setting can be transposed anytime to any religion but in US, it's definitely easier to base it to the conservative bible-belt or Texas. Just watch and laugh with an open mind. Hope it'll be continued for Season 2.

Kristin Chenoweth gets to exercise her vocal muscle after belting them effortlessly in the now-boring Glee. And I love Sandra Bernhard in her guest star spot at the end of the season too!

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